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Electoral District Of Portland
The electoral district of Portland was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It was based on the town of Portland, Victoria. Members for Portland Napthine went on to represent the Electoral district of South-West Coast The electoral district of South-West Coast is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created prior to the 2002 election in order to replace the abolished seats of Portland and Warrnambool. The seat is dominated by the town ... which was created in 2002. Election results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Portland, Electoral district of Former electoral districts of Victoria (Australia) 1856 establishments in Australia 1904 disestablishments in Australia 1945 establishments in Australia 2002 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Assembly Electoral Districts
Electoral districts of Victoria are the electoral districts, commonly referred to as "seats" or "electorates", into which the Australian State of Victoria is divided for the purpose of electing members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, one of the two houses of the Parliament of the State. The State is divided into 88 single-member districts. The Legislative Assembly has had 88 electorates since the 1985 election, increased from 81 previously. Electoral boundaries are redrawn from time to time, in a process called ''redivision''. The last redivision took place in 2021, when the Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission reviewed Victoria's district boundaries. The boundaries arising from the 2013 redivision applied at the 2014 and the 2018 state elections.Report on the 2012-13 redivision of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewen Cameron (Victorian Politician)
Ewen Cameron (10 April 1860 – 30 March 1906) was a politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Cameron was born in Morgiana near Hamilton, Victoria, the son of John Cameron and his wife Barbara Taylor. He was a grazier outside of politics, managing his family's property after his father's death, managing a property at Paschendale (then known as Struan) for five years, then at "Cloverdale", near Condah and Sinclair estate at Drumborg Drumborg is a locality in south west Victoria, Australia. The locality is in the Shire of Glenelg, west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Drumborg had a population of 152. Traditional ownership The formally recognised traditional owner .... He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly on 1 November 1900, serving until his death in office in 1906. Cameron married Emma Harriet, née Nunn, and had four children. Maud Cameron became a teacher and school headmistress; Winifred became a doctor; and Edith became a nur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of South-West Coast
The electoral district of South-West Coast is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created prior to the 2002 election in order to replace the abolished seats of Portland and Warrnambool. The seat is dominated by the town of Warrnambool, but also includes Portland, Port Fairy, Koroit, Heywood and Macarthur. South-West Coast is located in ancestrally Liberal territory, and was thus a natural choice for Portland's former member, Denis Napthine, to transfer for the 2002 election. He barely held onto his seat in the Labor landslide of that year, seeing his margin reduced to only 0.7 percent. However, it has reverted to its previous form as a safe Liberal seat. Napthine subsequently served as Premier of Victoria from 2013 to 2014. Following his government's election loss to Labor in November 2014, Napthine resigned from parliament on 3 September 2015. Roma Britnell Roma Clare Britnell (née Hussey; born 17 January 1967) is an Australian politician. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Napthine
Denis Vincent Napthine (born 6 March 1952) is a former Australian politician who was the 47th Premier of Victoria. Napthine was a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of Portland from 1988 to 2002 and South-West Coast from 2002 to 2015. He was elected leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party on 6 March 2013 following the resignation of Ted Baillieu and was sworn in as premier on the same day. His party lost the Victorian state election on 29 November 2014 and he announced he would step down as leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party, with Matthew Guy being elected his successor on 4 December. Early life Napthine was born in 1952 to Len and Theresa Napthine in Geelong, Victoria, as the third child in a family of ten children. Napthine spent his early school years at Winchelsea State School before attending Chanel College, a Catholic boys' school in Lovely Banks near Geelong. After graduating he attended the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digby Crozier
Digby Glen Crozier (born 16 May 1927) is a former Australian politician. He was born in London to medical practitioner John Edwin Digby Crozier and Nancy Legoe, who were from Adelaide; Nancy's father was Glen Legoe (1864–1951) of George Wilcox & Co; Capt. John Legoe (c. 1824–1895) was a grandfather. He attended Geelong Grammar School and then Caius College, Cambridge, where he received a Master of Arts. From 1945 to 1946 he served in the Royal Australian Navy, and afterwards became a grazier near Casterton. On 20 April 1957 he married Mary Jill Salter; they had four children. He was a councillor at Glenelg from 1965 to 1973, serving as president from 1967 to 1968. In 1973 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Liberal member for Western. He was appointed Minister for State Development, Decentralisation and Tourism in 1976, moving to Local Government in 1979 and to Minerals and Energy in 1981. He was also deputy Liberal leader in the upper house from 1978 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Lewis (Australian Politician)
William John Lewis (16 October 1916 – 8 December 1991) was an Australian politician. He was born at Penshurst and worked as a truck driver and postal worker before serving in the military during World War II. After his return he was a cartage contractor from 1947, and was president of the local branch of the Labor Party. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1970 as the member for Portland Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ..., but was defeated in 1973. Lewis died in 1991. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Bill 1916 births 1991 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don McKellar (politician)
Donald Kelso McKellar (29 June 1924 – 5 January 1986) was an Australian politician. He was born at Hamilton to grazier Lionel Jack Stuart McKellar and Colina Martha. He attended school locally and served in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1942 to 1946, returning to farm at Yulecart near Hamilton. On 4 May 1949 he married Margaret Grant, with whom he had five daughters. A Dundas Shire councillor from 1962 to 1967, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1967 as the Liberal member for Portland Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas .... Defeated in 1970, he was elected again in 1973, serving until 1985. References 1924 births 1986 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Politician
An independent or non-partisan politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party, and therefore choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it, or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In running for public office, independents sometimes choose to form a party or alliance with other independents, and may formally register their party or alliance. Even where the word "independent" is used, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia (Victorian Division)
The Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), branded as Liberal Victoria, and commonly known as the Victorian Liberals, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria. It was formed in 1949 as the Liberal and Country Party (LCP), and simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1965. There was a previous Victorian division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945, but it ceased to exist and merged to form the LCP in March 1949. History Background Robert Menzies, who was the Prime Minister of Australia between 1939 and 1941, founded the Liberal Party during a conference held in Canberra in October 1944, uniting many non-Labor political organisations, including the United Australia Party (UAP) and the Australian Women's National League (AWNL). The UAP was a major conservative party in Australia and last governed Victoria between May 1932 and April 1935 under Stanley Argyle's leadership. Argyle lost premiership when the UAP's co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gibbs (Australian Politician)
George Sampson Gibbs (25 April 1908 – 25 May 1968) was an Australian politician. He was born in Richmond to clerk George Thomas Pender Gibbs and Alberta Sampson. He attended Scotch College and became a schoolteacher, teaching at Malvern, Cann River, Boolarra South, Sunny Creek and Swan Marsh and serving as headmaster at Dennington and Koroit. In 1935 he married Rose Wilmott Jones, with whom he had three children. In 1955 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal and Country Party member for Portland. He was a backbencher and an opponent of capital punishment. He lost preselection in 1967 and stood unsuccessfully as an Independent Liberal. In 1968 he joined the Country Party, but he died at Warrnambool Warrnambool ( Maar: ''Peetoop'' or ''Wheringkernitch'' or ''Warrnambool'') is a city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Warrnambool had a population of 35,743. Situated on the Princes Highway, Warrnambo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal And Country Party
The Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), branded as Liberal Victoria, and commonly known as the Victorian Liberals, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It was formed in 1949 as the Liberal and Country Party (LCP), and simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1965. There was a previous Victorian division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945, but it ceased to exist and merged to form the LCP in March 1949. History Background Robert Menzies, who was the Prime Minister of Australia between 1939 and 1941, founded the Liberal Party during a conference held in Canberra in October 1944, uniting many non-Labor political organisations, including the United Australia Party (UAP) and the Australian Women's National League (AWNL). The UAP was a major conservative party in Australia and last governed Victoria between May 1932 and April 1935 under Stanley Argyle's leadership. Argyle lost premiersh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Party Of Australia – Victoria
The National Party of Australia – Victoria is a political party in Victoria, which forms the state branch of the federal Nationals. Historically, it represented graziers, farmers and rural voters. However, the modern National Party no longer represents these traditional interests; shifting its focus to support the mining industry and as a result, ignoring the challenges faced by rural communities and farmers struggling with the effects of climate change and mining practices such as fracking. The Victorian Farmer's Union formed in 1914 was the precursor to the Victorian Country Party, later the Nationals. The party, commonly referred to as "The Nationals," is presently the junior partner in a centre-right Coalition with the Liberal Party, forming a joint Opposition bench. During periods of conservative government, the leader also serves as Deputy Premier of Victoria. Name The candidates sponsored by the Victorian Farmers' Union initially used the same name but in parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
